This file contains an 1868 list of residents of Pyrenees,
a small locality near Avoca in central Victoria.
The list contains names, some places of residence, and occupations.

RESlDENTS OF PYRENEES

1868 Bailliere's Official Victorian P.O. Directory.

PYRENEES (Wimmera District). Postal village;
under Avoca Road Board, Electoral District of
Crowlands. Distance 128 miles.

John Healy Postmaster.

ATKINSON Geo., miner, Fiddlers Creek.
BARNES John and William, miners.
BARNES Thomas, engineer, Yehrip.
BAXTER Jas. , miner, Middle Creek.
BURROWES James, miner, No. 2 Creek.
COLLINS G. E., miner, Donkey Hill.
CROWHURST George, miner, Fiddlers Creek.
CURNICK James, miner, Fiddlers Creek.
DALY James and Patrick, farmers.
DAVIS Daniel, miner, Fiddlers Creek.
DAWE Jos. , quartz-crusher, Yehrip.
DODD Alex. and Thomas, miners.
FLETCHER Hamlet, squatter, Mountain Creek.
FLICKINGER p. , miner, Fiddlers Creek.
GIBBS Sam., miner, Fiddlers Creek.
GORMAN Jas. , miner, Donkey Hill.
HARDY Isaac, miner, Middle Creek.
HIGGINS Stephen, farmer, Yehrip.
HILLGROVE Jno., miner, Sardine Gully.
LEHASIE Edw. , dairyman, No. 2 Creek.
LEYDEN Jno. , dairyman, Donkey Hill.
M'GIllan H., engineer, Fiddlers Creek.
M'Mahon Thos., miner, Fiddlers Creek.
PONTING, Alex. , miner, Middle Creek.
RODWELL David, miner, Fiddlers Creek.
SANDERSON J. p. and J. L. , farmers.
SANDERSON William, miner, Sardine Gully.
SAUNDERS, Colston, miner, Sardine Gully.
SMITH George, splitter, Middle Creek.
STEWART W . , blacksmith, Fiddlers Creek.
TURNER William, farmer, Yehrip.
WARD Edw., Rob., and Thos., miners.
WILLIAMS Dan., farmer, Warrenmang.
WILLIAMS Isaac and William, miners.
WRIGHT Thomas, farmer, Yehrip.
YOUNG Jas. , miner, Fiddlers Creek.

Notes:

I give no guarantees of an error-free text. I scanned it with a 300 DPI handscanner back in 1995, and Optical Character Recognition was not perfect then! On this particular text, my OCR program tended to confuse "1" and "l" (one & ell); and put "t" for "T". So, "William" could be "Wi11iam" or "Wil1iam" , and "Thomas" could be "thomas" . You might also find some gratuitous spaces. I edited out most errors, but best to check manually if a computer search fails to find the name you are looking for, especially if it contains the lower case letters l,i,e,y, or uppercase T.

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